Turmeric-Braised Pigs' Feet
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* All of these ingredients can be purchased at an Asian Supermarket
This is a dish that my family has always enjoyed and very simple to throw together because of its five ingredients. My mother usually makes a big pot, enough for today and tomorrow meal, because it's even better the next day, once the sauce permeate into the meat.
This dish would not be the dish it is without turmeric. The turmeric gives a lovely yellow and distinctive flavor to this great dish. My nephews loves eating this dish because its chewy soft texture and the sweet/salty mixture that you can eat with rice, and it pairs well with any green Asian vegetable, like bok choy or water spinach.
Most people tend to be turn off by pig's feet but I have made this for my friends and they have enjoyed it quite a bit. Only warning, if you never had pig's feet before, there is a lot of tiny bones and cartilages, but then that's the point of eating pig's feet. (I think Asian people in general loves to chew on bones, thus you have the famous chicken feet and pork spareribs at the dim sum restaurant.)